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Take a Look Inside the Secret Google X Life Sciences Lab

In the past year, Google X’s secretive life science division has been tantalizing us with seriously cool-sounding shit: contact lens that monitor glucose, cancer-tracking nanoparticles, etc etc. The Atlantic has made the first video from inside the lab and—oh, were you actually expecting Google to unload a bunch of secrets? Nah. But hey look, it’s…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jan 29 '15

How It Would Look If Other Types Of Stars Were Close As The Sun

What would it look like if other stars were as close as the sun? For starters, we may have more than one, and it may be either much bigger or smaller than our current orbital star, as shown in these videos, which explore a hypothetical universe where our sun has been replaced with other stars…

io9 Ria Misra Jan 29 '15

Faxpapers: A Lost 1930s Technology That Delivered Newspapers via Radio

One of the greatest media experiments of the 1930s and 40s was the faxpaper. Almost entirely forgotten today, it was a technology that could deliver newspapers over the radio waves, then print them instantly right in your home. When we think about the evolution of mass media, it usually goes something like this: First came…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 29 '15

In Suburban Gothic, Seeing Ghosts Isn’t As Scary As Talking To Your Dad

Sometimes, even the prospect of facing down angry, vengeful ghosts is less terrifying than having to move back in with one’s raging asshole of a father. This is the situation facing the paranormally-inclined hero of deadpan horror comedy Suburban Gothic. The spooks that haunt Suburban Gothic take a distinct back seat to its human characters,…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jan 29 '15

The FCC Just Redefined Broadband So Expect Faster Internet

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just voted to redefine broadband as “internet which is actually fast enough to use.” Now, in order to call its service broadband, companies will need to guarantee download speeds of 25 megabits per second or faster and upload speeds of 3 Mbps or faster. This is really, really good news.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jan 29 '15

Let’s Only Talk About The End Of Last Night’s Arrow

The beginning of “Midnight City” has a case of the sads. Let’s be honest; Arrow has had too many cases of the sads lately. The show itself seems sick of its gloomy tone, which is probably why by the end it goes completely crazy. Let’s talk about that. The Flashdance in the Flashback Ollie and…

Television Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 29 '15

Check Out The Flash TV Show’s New Trickster

Classic Flash rogue and Joker-esque wanna-be the Tricker will be an upcoming villain in an upcoming episode of The CW’s Flash TV series, and this first look at his duds reveal Barry’s foes are stepping up their supervillain fashion game. That’s Devon Graye as the new Trickster — because remember, Mark Hamill, who played the…

Television Rob Bricken Jan 29 '15

The First Self-Charging Smart Bracelet Is Obscenely Expensive

As smartwatches get more and more capable, many have wondered how luxury watch makers will compete. Will Rolex eventually introduce a timepiece with smartphone notifications? One company that might have the answer is Britain’s Christophe & Co. who’s developed a smart bracelet called the Armill that blends luxury and technology into a wearable accessory for…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 29 '15

Spotify Is Killing It, and That’s a Good Thing

Sony just made PlayStation immeasurably better by ditching its own Music Unlimited service for Spotify, bringing the world’s most popular (and arguably best) on-demand streaming service to the world’s most popular next-gen gaming console. Sony Music Unlimited isn’t just being shoved aside; it’s dead now. It was a middling offering compared to Spotify anyway, so…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 29 '15

New Magic CCG Expansion Fate Reforged Returns To An Era Of Dragons

In the latest Magic: the Gathering expansion, Fate Reforged, the mad planeswalker Sarkhan Vol has stepped into a portal on his home plane of Tarkir, where dragons are extinct. He emerges 1,000 years in the past, in an age where dragons rule the skies. Fate Reforged is the middle set of Khans block; it will…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jan 29 '15

This Brilliant Tyler Stout Alien Poster Is Going On Sale Friday

Tyler Stout has a reputation for awesomely classy pop culture posters – and his first of 2015 is no exception, as a beautiful celebration of all things Alien. The poster was revealed at a special screening of the original film at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX (presumably hence why it has the January 28th…

Tech News James Whitbrook Jan 29 '15

These demolition experts are back to clear space in your Lego city

It is time to clear out some space in your Lego city, and the new sets in the City theme should do just the trick. Four new sets, launching March 1st, are returning construction workers (or in this case a demolition crew) back to the lineup after a 6 year hiatus. The new sets are…

Tech News Michael Schulte Jan 29 '15

Megacities Are Growing So Fast We Need Satellites To Study Them

It’s difficult to track the growth of cities across multiple countries in a consistent way—especially considering tools like satellite imagery have only been around for a few decades. But this week, the World Bank Group released the results of an unprecedented, decade-long analysis of one of the world’s most interesting boom regions: East Asia. Image:…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jan 29 '15

Beautiful new photo of the mysterious Mouth of the Beast nebula

The European Southern Observatory has published a new Very Large Telescope photo of the cometary globule CG4 or, like they call it, The Mouth of the Beast. As the ESO says, as with other cometary globules, “the exact nature of CG4 remains a mystery.” There are two theories. Some astronomers think that CG4 may have…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 29 '15

Early Humans May Have Interbred With Neanderthals 55,000 Years Ago

It’s widely acknowledged that modern Europeans mated with Neanderthals at some point in the past. We’re just not entirely sure when or where. The recent discovery of an ancient skull in Israel may represent the critical missing link anthropologists have been looking for. The 55,000-year-old partial skull was discovered in Northern Israel’s Mano Cave in…

io9 George Dvorsky Jan 29 '15

SpongeBob SquarePants Is the Herald of Our À La Carte TV Future

Nickelodeon and its parent company Viacom just announced that it will be following in the well trodden footsteps of HBO, Sling TV, and (perhaps the misguided) CBS by creating a monthly subscription-based video service. Basically, there’s never been a greater time to be a cord-cutter. Arguably, an a la carte TV future would need to…

Tech News Darren Orf Jan 29 '15

Limitless Will Be Turned Into A Police Procedural For TV

Limitless, the movies about Bradley Cooper taking a bunch of drugs and changing his life from a lazy writer to a gigantic success, is getting a TV series. We actually really liked Limitless the movie. It wasn’t a huge cinematic experience, but it had a few good moments in it. Plus the NZT drug itself…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 29 '15

Farmer makes living drawings using cows, a drone and a truck

Witness this farmer creating an smiley using his cattle—because that’s what you do when you have cows, a truck, food, and a drone. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 29 '15

A Thanos Figure That Finally Does Marvel’s Greatest Villain Justice

It’s no longer much of a surprise that Marvel is working to bring one of its great comic book series to the big screen. In the Guardians of the Galaxy we finally got a full look at Thanos as he works to gather the Infinity Gems to eventually assemble the Infinity Gauntlet, and thanks to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 29 '15

What Book Simply Has To Be Read In One Sitting?

Some books are best read with plenty of time to breathe, while others seem to demand that we set aside our other paltry obligations (for things like “sleep” or “basic politeness”) and focus all our attention until the very last page. Tell us in the comments what book needs to be read all at once…

Books & Comics Ria Misra Jan 29 '15

Take a Look Inside the Secret Google X Life Sciences Lab

How It Would Look If Other Types Of Stars Were Close As The Sun

Faxpapers: A Lost 1930s Technology That Delivered Newspapers via Radio

In Suburban Gothic, Seeing Ghosts Isn’t As Scary As Talking To Your Dad

The FCC Just Redefined Broadband So Expect Faster Internet

Let’s Only Talk About The End Of Last Night’s Arrow

Check Out The Flash TV Show’s New Trickster

The First Self-Charging Smart Bracelet Is Obscenely Expensive

Spotify Is Killing It, and That’s a Good Thing

New Magic CCG Expansion Fate Reforged Returns To An Era Of Dragons

This Brilliant Tyler Stout Alien Poster Is Going On Sale Friday

These demolition experts are back to clear space in your Lego city

Megacities Are Growing So Fast We Need Satellites To Study Them

Beautiful new photo of the mysterious Mouth of the Beast nebula

Early Humans May Have Interbred With Neanderthals 55,000 Years Ago

SpongeBob SquarePants Is the Herald of Our À La Carte TV Future

Limitless Will Be Turned Into A Police Procedural For TV

Farmer makes living drawings using cows, a drone and a truck

A Thanos Figure That Finally Does Marvel’s Greatest Villain Justice

What Book Simply Has To Be Read In One Sitting?

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